St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-04-02

JANIToR TITUS confession to the muir
der of Title Smith was read to the New
Jersey Board of Pardons, and on this his
Communication of sentence was granted
A DISPATCH from Sydney, New South
Wales, says that an explosion occurred il
the Built colliery, near Sydney, on the
S3d, killing seventy persons and injurine
many more.
| WORD was received on the 23d that
three Delaware, Lackawanna q Western
| passenger trains were snow-bound on the
| POCono mountains, and tina. the snow was
| five feet deep.
| The Secretary of War has awarded the
contract for the construction of an iron
! bridge across the Potomac river at Wash
ington, d. c., to the Mount Vernon Iron
| Bridge Company of Mount Vernon, o., al
their bid of $50 9l5.
IHE snow was sixteen inches to two feet
| deep in the western part of Connecticut
on the 23l. The Connecticut Western
road could get no trains through. A drift
| at Boston Corners to Mount Riga was over
mile long ana 100 to 125 feet deep
SPECIAL from Butte, Mont. on the 23i,
said: The United States Supreme Court
refused stay of proceedings in the case
OF Thomas J. Harding, the stage robber
and murderer, who was to be hanged at
Dillon on the 25th.
MAGGIE NOLAN, one of the servants at
the Richmond Hotel, at Buffalo died on
the 23d making the twelfth known victim
of the Richmond Hotel fire Mrs. W. j.
Mann, wife of one of the propretors, was
rapidly sinking and will undoubtedly die
THE Italian bark, Luciano Zera, which
sailed from Cardenas on January Oh for
Philadelphia, has been given up for lost
together with Captain Imperato and his
crew of twelva men. She had on board a
cargo of sugar, valued at about So 900,
and the vessel herself was worth about
$4,000
GLADSTONE, by cablcgram, thanks
Charles A. Dana for the resolutions OF
sympathy and encouragement sent him by
the recent New York meeting and indoors.
ing the attitude of himself and associates,
against coercion
TIE Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thOrlzed the LaGrand National Bank of
LaGrand, Ore, to commence business
with capital of s6),O00 also the First
National Bank of Aberdeen. Miss, with
$4,000 capital.
1T is learned on good authority that Sec
rotary Manning's successor Will not be
appointed before April l, the date upon
which Mr.. Manning's resignation takes
effect. The belief still prevails that AS
sistlnt Secretary Fairchild will receive
the appointment.
LIEUTENANT A. G. WINTERHALrER, of
the navy, has been ordered to Paris to
represent the United States at the inter
national congress of astronomers, w hich
meets in that city April IS. After the
congress adjourns he will go to London,
Kew, Greenwich and Hamburg to inspect
the observatories.
The Commissioner of Pensions is in
formed of the arrest at Kansas City and
the impending trial Of one Bragdon, alias
St Clair, who has been fleeing pension
claimants by representing himself as an
officer of the bureau and receiving money
for promise to promote action upon
their claims.
THE Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, on
the 23d, refused rehearing in the case Oh
Milton Weston, the Chicago capitalist
now undergoing imprisonment in the
Riverside penitentiary for completely il
the Murraysville gas-well riots.